"if there was one that dictates that a few of the chips have to put on the tables for them to be legit, it was you"

There is no such reg.
Reg says chips are for "Gaming Use". Many interpret this to mean some of each issue must be put on the tables. A former HR shift manager, now at the Palms, told me the HR always made a small fill of each LE to a BJ table, while he was there.